Shalmaneser I

​​​​​​Shalmaneser I (1326 BC-1233 BC) was King of Assyria from 1263 BC to 1234 BC, succeeding Adad-nirari I and preceding Tukulti-Ninurta I.

Biography
Shalmaneser was the son of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I, and he succeeded his father as King on his death in 1263 BC. In the first year of his reign, he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, bringing its dust to Assur. In the secund year of his reign, he defeated the Mitanni king Shattuara, and he incorporated the remains of the Mitanni kingdom as an Assyrian province. He had 14,400 prisoners blinded in one eye, and he was one of the first Assyrian kings to deport his defeated enemies to various lands rather than slaughter them all. By the end of his reign, his kingdom stretched from Harran in Syria to Carchemish on the Euphrates, and he had built palaces at Assur and Nineveh and founded the city of Kalhu.